[Arm-netbook] arm-netbook Digest, Vol 30, Issue 32

[Alejandro Mery]

On 2 January 2013 17:00, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
>
>> for boards for hobbyists and expansions headers there are other boards
>> with Allwinner SoCs already available
>
> alejandro: the point of the EOMA-68 initiative is that the exact same
> board that is available for mass-production *is* the exact same board
> for hobbyists and includes expansion headers.
>
>  also the point is that those exact same hobbyists may consider
> replacing a board with an allwinner SoC at a later date with another
> EOMA-68 card with a better, faster or cheaper SoC.
>
>  the closer that those hobbyists stick to the EOMA-68 standard of
> course, the more chance they will have at not having to do any kind of
> software upgrades, but sometimes that's not achieveable.

sure you can redefine the project in any way you like, but in the
instant to add an expansion header on the board it stops been eoma-68
complaint